Tom Cotruvo
Executive Director, Duluth Economic Development Authority, City of Duluth,
Duluth, Minnesota
Expertise: financing economic development projects, business
retention and recruitment, city planning, architecture
James
(Jim) R. Epstein
Co-founder and CEO, EFO Capital
Management, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Expertise:
development of mixed-use master planned communities
Lisa B. Hogan
Attorney, Lisa B. Hogan, P. A., Miami, Florida
Expertise: business law, public/private partnerships, foundation and
nonprofit management
Michelle Jones
Community Assistance
Coordinator, Historic Preservation Division, Mississippi Department of
Archives and History, Starkville, Mississippi
Expertise: historic preservation: local preservation planning,
education coordinator, events coordinator, technical assistance
Yon
Lambert
Assistant Director,
Palmetto Conservation Foundation,
Spartanburg,
South Carolina
Expertise: planning and public policy
Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu
Director of Community Programs, Asian Community Development Corporation,
Boston, Massachusetts
Expertise: community development, urban and environmental planning,
community organizing, participatory design, art/technology/culture and
community development
Andrew
Miller
Project Manager, Forest City
Ratner Companies, Brooklyn, New York
Expertise: real
estate development, market research
Jessica Cogan Millman
Deputy Director, Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Washington, DC
Expertise: Smart Growth, land use and environmental planning,
reducing plan and project implementation barriers
Daniel
Parolek
Founding Principal, Opticos
Design, Berkeley, California
Expertise:
neighborhood design (infill and
greenfield), building type design, traditional and classical building
design, creation of form-based codes
Verónica
Rosales, AICP
Chief Urban Planner,
Planning, Research and Development Department, City of El Paso, Texas
Expertise:
urban planning, border issues, neighborhood revitalization, transportation
planning
Will Selman
Town Planner, Lancaster County
Planning Commission and
Principal, Town Planning Design
Associates, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Expertise:
New Urbanist planning
Ken Stapleton
Director,
University Park Alliance, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Expertise:
revitalization of urban
neighborhoods & downtowns; design & implementation of innovative urban
security programs; university-community partnerships
Kendra
Wills
Land Use Agent, Michigan State University Extension - Kent County, Grand
Rapids, Michigan
Expertise: adult and youth land use education, connecting urban and
rural land use issues, farmland and open space preservation, county purchase
of development rights programs, Smart Growth
